Lscc Loses 2 Players To Grades

LEESBURG — Lake Sumter Community College, which had to forfeit its final two games last year after academic inadequacies and discipline problems, has lost two players to grades.

George Gilmore, a 6-foot-3 freshman guard from New Smyrna Beach, and Keith Johnson, a 6-5 freshman forward/center from Orlando, were told by Lakers Coach Jon Scarbrough to concentrate on school, not on basketball.

''I told George that he needed to be a student first,'' Scarbrough said. ''He won't be with us this year.''

Gilmore had not practiced since early September.

Johnson has been out the past two weeks. He will not play the rest of the semester, but Scarbrough said he could return for the Lakers' Jan. 7 game against Manatee Community College, LSCC's first game after the second semester.

''We have to see some improvement in school before he can come back,'' Scarbrough said.